Preparing For Change

The in-plant's 65,000-square-foot facility also encompasses micrographics, which creates and stores 16mm microfilm files. Surprisingly, microfilm far outstrips paper in its use by airlines; for every 10 copies sent to an airline, Walker estimates that the shop sends 230 cartridges of microfilm.

Boeing also has 35 copy centers scattered throughout the Seattle area. Like the main printing operation, the copy centers fall under the responsibility of the shared services group. Their inclusion in this year's figures helped push Boeing from sixth place to third on IPG's Top 50 list.